“American Betrayal” shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR’s first inauguration and ends when the United States “wins” the Cold War.

A WND columnist since 2010, West serves as Washington correspondent for the European weekly newspaper Dispatch International. Her work has appeared in many publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the New Criterion, The Public Interest, Women’s Quarterly, the Weekly Standard, and the Washington Post Magazine; her fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly. She has made numerous radio appearances, and as a former CNN contributor, she made frequent television appearances on the former CNN show, “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”

According to the Center for Security Policy, the Mightier Pen award goes each year to a writer who displays a commitment to a robust national security and efforts to educate our countrymen and women about the need to practice the philosophy President Reagan called “peace through strength.” Previous recipients include: Mark Helprin, Charles Krauthammer, Roger Ailes, William F. Buckley Jr., A.M. Rosenthal, Andrew C. McCarthy, Norman Podhoretz, Claudia Rosett and Monica Crowley.